In principle, the content of the Astro-Databank wiki is protected by international copyright. The holder of the right to publish, modify and distribute these data is Astrodienst AG, Zollikon/Zürich, Switzerland.

In principle, the content of the Astro-Databank wiki is protected by international copyright. The holder of the right to publish, modify and distribute these data is Astrodienst AG, Zollikon/Zürich, Switzerland.

Astro-Databank is a non-profitl community project and in the legal sense a subdivision of Astrodienst AG, with no commercial interest.

Astro-Databank is a non-profitl community project and in the legal sense a subdivision of Astrodienst AG, with no commercial interest.

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The spellings Astr-Databank and Astrodatabank are used interchangably and refer to the same project.

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The spellings Astro-Databank and Astrodatabank are used interchangably and refer to the same project.

The data in the wiki consist of pages describing either a person or a mundane event.

The data in the wiki consist of pages describing either a person or a mundane event.

Revision as of 08:37, 25 March 2013

In principle, the content of the Astro-Databank wiki is protected by international copyright. The holder of the right to publish, modify and distribute these data is Astrodienst AG, Zollikon/Zürich, Switzerland.
Astro-Databank is a non-profitl community project and in the legal sense a subdivision of Astrodienst AG, with no commercial interest.
The spellings Astro-Databank and Astrodatabank are used interchangably and refer to the same project.

The data in the wiki consist of pages describing either a person or a mundane event.

birth information (name, date and time of birth, birth place)

source information, rating information, data collection details

important event information

relationship information: how this person is linked to others in the wiki

category information

biographical notes

links to other public resources, mainly to Wikipedia biographies and portrait images

No copyright for birth data

Astro-Databank holds that birth data records (name, date, time and location of a person's birth) and event data records (date, time, location and nature of an event) are factual information, not products of creative writing. In most jurisdictions, such factual data are not subject to copyright and may be freely used and republished, once they have been made public.

Therefore Astro-Databank grants the right to anyone to use and republish birth data and event data records, as they are contained in the Astro-Databank wiki.

In the interest of quality of data collection and data distribution, it is expected that the source of the data is noted along with the data, and that the Rodden Rating assigned by Astro-Databank is carried forward with the data record. For mentioning the source, the user of the data is given to choice to either name Astro-Databank as the source, or to quote a sufficient amount of the source information given in the Astro-Databank article, so that the reader of such data can identify the original source. If Astro-Databank is named and the medium of publication allows it, a link to the corresponding Astrodatabank Wiki page should be placed with the data.

Recognition for the labour of data research

Astro-Databank recognizes and respects the labour involved in researching and finding birth data records. While the finder of such data cannot claim to own the copyright or exclusive publishing right for them, there often are many hours of work and investigative effort involved in finding and verifying such data. Astro-Databank mention the original collector in the source notes, together with the actual source reference. The special data field 'collectior' is assigned to him/her if he/she is established as systematic and reliable collector. Though data collectiong is basically a labour of love by volunteer data enthusiasts, Astro-Databank often also contributes to the cost involved in collection, e.g registry fees, purchase of biographies, research library subscriptions, work hours.

Copyright for text, images and for data elements created by Astro-Databank

Text contained in the Astro-Databank wiki is either the product of creative writing by the Astro-Databank editors, or it is copied from sources like Wikipedia which permit extensive quoting and re-publication under certain conditions. All text is subject to copyright and may not be copied or republished elsewhere, unless permission is granted by Astro-Databank, or the conditions of the original source are fulfilled. This applies also to the assignment of categories and to some parts of the source notes, as far as they go beyond the listing of original publication titles, authors and collectors.

The biographical notes and the source notes can contain phrases or sentences which were not originally written by Astro-Databank or Astrodienst. Some parts of the text is copied or rephrased from Wikipedia. While Astro-Databank quotes and publishes such text legally in this wiki, it cannot grant any right to others to use the same text.

The same applies for images contained in the Astro-Databank Wiki. No right is granted to anyone to use or publish the same images. If an image originates from a source outside Astro-Databank, the copyright conditions of that source apply.

These rules may be changed by Astrodienst at any time. The visitor accepts the location of Astrodienst AG in Switzerland as place of court for any conflict which may arise out of the publication and usage of these data.